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Wang M, Huang Y, Liu K, Wang Z, Zhang M, Yuan H, Duan S, Wei L, Yao H, Sun Q, Zhong J, Tang R, Chen J, Sun Y, Li X, Su H, Yang Q, Hu L, Yun L, Yang J, Nie S, Cai Y, Yan J, Zhou K, Wang C, Zhu B, Liu C, He G. Multiple Human Population Movements and Cultural Dispersal Events Shaped the Landscape of Chinese Paternal Heritage. Mol Biol Evol 2024; 41:msae122. [PMID: 38885310 PMCID: PMC11232699 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 05/30/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
Abstract
Large-scale genomic projects and ancient DNA innovations have ushered in a new paradigm for exploring human evolutionary history. However, the genetic legacy of spatiotemporally diverse ancient Eurasians within Chinese paternal lineages remains unresolved. Here, we report an integrated Y-chromosome genomic database encompassing 15,563 individuals from both modern and ancient Eurasians, including 919 newly reported individuals, to investigate the Chinese paternal genomic diversity. The high-resolution, time-stamped phylogeny reveals multiple diversification events and extensive expansions in the early and middle Neolithic. We identify four major ancient population movements, each associated with technological innovations that have shaped the Chinese paternal landscape. First, the expansion of early East Asians and millet farmers from the Yellow River Basin predominantly carrying O2/D subclades significantly influenced the formation of the Sino-Tibetan people and facilitated the permanent settlement of the Tibetan Plateau. Second, the dispersal of rice farmers from the Yangtze River Valley carrying O1 and certain O2 sublineages reshapes the genetic makeup of southern Han Chinese, as well as the Tai-Kadai, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, and Austroasiatic people. Third, the Neolithic Siberian Q/C paternal lineages originated and proliferated among hunter-gatherers on the Mongolian Plateau and the Amur River Basin, leaving a significant imprint on the gene pools of northern China. Fourth, the J/G/R paternal lineages derived from western Eurasia, which were initially spread by Yamnaya-related steppe pastoralists, maintain their presence primarily in northwestern China. Overall, our research provides comprehensive genetic evidence elucidating the significant impact of interactions with culturally distinct ancient Eurasians on the patterns of paternal diversity in modern Chinese populations.
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- Mengge Wang
- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
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- School of International Tourism and Culture, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China
- MoFang Human Genome Research Institute, Tianfu Software Park, Chengdu, Sichuan 610042, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Research Institute of Intelligent Complex Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637100, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Human Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China
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- Belt and Road Research Center for Forensic Molecular Anthropology Gansu University of Political Science and Law, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400331, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400331, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jinzhong 030001, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Laboratory Medicine and Center for Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637007, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Institute of Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College and Center for Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637007, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, China
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- School of Laboratory Medicine and Center for Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637007, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jinzhong 030001, China
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- MoFang Human Genome Research Institute, Tianfu Software Park, Chengdu, Sichuan 610042, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Forensic Multi-Omics for Precision Identification, School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
- Microbiome Medicine Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510515, China
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- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Forensic Multi-Omics for Precision Identification, School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
- Anti-Drug Technology Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510230, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
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Wang Z, Wang M, Hu L, He G, Nie S. Evolutionary profiles and complex admixture landscape in East Asia: New insights from modern and ancient Y chromosome variation perspectives. Heliyon 2024; 10:e30067. [PMID: 38756579 PMCID: PMC11096704 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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Human Y-chromosomes are characterized by nonrecombination and uniparental inheritance, carrying traces of human history evolution and admixture. Large-scale population-specific genomic sources based on advanced sequencing technologies have revolutionized our understanding of human Y chromosome diversity and its anthropological and forensic applications. Here, we reviewed and meta-analyzed the Y chromosome genetic diversity of modern and ancient people from China and summarized the patterns of founding lineages of spatiotemporally different populations associated with their origin, expansion, and admixture. We emphasized the strong association between our identified founding lineages and language-related human dispersal events correlated with the Sino-Tibetan, Altaic, and southern Chinese multiple-language families related to the Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian, and Austro-Asiatic languages. We subsequently summarize the recent advances in translational applications in forensic and anthropological science, including paternal biogeographical ancestry inference (PBGAI), surname investigation, and paternal history reconstruction. Whole-Y sequencing or high-resolution panels with high coverage of terminal Y chromosome lineages are essential for capturing the genomic diversity of ethnolinguistically diverse East Asians. Generally, we emphasized the importance of including more ethnolinguistically diverse, underrepresented modern and spatiotemporally different ancient East Asians in human genetic research for a comprehensive understanding of the paternal genetic landscape of East Asians with a detailed time series and for the reconstruction of a reference database in the PBGAI, even including new technology innovations of Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) for new genetic variation discovery.
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- Zhiyong Wang
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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He G, Wang M, Miao L, Chen J, Zhao J, Sun Q, Duan S, Wang Z, Xu X, Sun Y, Liu Y, Liu J, Wang Z, Wei L, Liu C, Ye J, Wang L. Multiple founding paternal lineages inferred from the newly-developed 639-plex Y-SNP panel suggested the complex admixture and migration history of Chinese people. Hum Genomics 2023; 17:29. [PMID: 36973821 PMCID: PMC10045532 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-023-00476-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Non-recombining regions of the Y-chromosome recorded the evolutionary traces of male human populations and are inherited haplotype-dependently and male-specifically. Recent whole Y-chromosome sequencing studies have identified previously unrecognized population divergence, expansion and admixture processes, which promotes a better understanding and application of the observed patterns of Y-chromosome genetic diversity. RESULTS Here, we developed one highest-resolution Y-chromosome single nucleotide polymorphism (Y-SNP) panel targeted for uniparental genealogy reconstruction and paternal biogeographical ancestry inference, which included 639 phylogenetically informative SNPs. We genotyped these loci in 1033 Chinese male individuals from 33 ethnolinguistically diverse populations and identified 256 terminal Y-chromosomal lineages with frequency ranging from 0.0010 (singleton) to 0.0687. We identified six dominant common founding lineages associated with different ethnolinguistic backgrounds, which included O2a2b1a1a1a1a1a1a1-M6539, O2a1b1a1a1a1a1a1-F17, O2a2b1a1a1a1a1b1a1b-MF15397, O2a2b2a1b1-A16609, O1b1a1a1a1b2a1a1-F2517, and O2a2b1a1a1a1a1a1-F155. The AMOVA and nucleotide diversity estimates revealed considerable differences and high genetic diversity among ethnolinguistically different populations. We constructed one representative phylogenetic tree among 33 studied populations based on the haplogroup frequency spectrum and sequence variations. Clustering patterns in principal component analysis and multidimensional scaling results showed a genetic differentiation between Tai-Kadai-speaking Li, Mongolic-speaking Mongolian, and other Sinitic-speaking Han Chinese populations. Phylogenetic topology inferred from the BEAST and Network relationships reconstructed from the popART further showed the founding lineages from culturally/linguistically diverse populations, such as C2a/C2b was dominant in Mongolian people and O1a/O1b was dominant in island Li people. We also identified many lineages shared by more than two ethnolinguistically different populations with a high proportion, suggesting their extensive admixture and migration history. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicated that our developed high-resolution Y-SNP panel included major dominant Y-lineages of Chinese populations from different ethnic groups and geographical regions, which can be used as the primary and powerful tool for forensic practice. We should emphasize the necessity and importance of whole sequencing of more ethnolinguistically different populations, which can help identify more unrecognized population-specific variations for the promotion of Y-chromosome-based forensic applications.
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- Guanglin He
- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Forensic Science, Key Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of Ministry of Public Security, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100038, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jinzhong, 030001, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Forensic Science, Key Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of Ministry of Public Security, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100038, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400331, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Science and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Science and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Science and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, 010028, Inner Mongolia, China
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- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Forensic Multi-Omics for Precision Identification, School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Forensic Science, Key Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of Ministry of Public Security, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100038, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Forensic Science, Key Laboratory of Forensic Genetics of Ministry of Public Security, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100038, China.
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Yu HX, Ao C, Wang XP, Zhang XP, Sun J, Li H, Liu KJ, Wei LH. The impacts of bronze age in the gene pool of Chinese: Insights from phylogeographics of Y-chromosomal haplogroup N1a2a-F1101. Front Genet 2023; 14:1139722. [PMID: 36968599 PMCID: PMC10036388 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1139722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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Objectives: Previous studies of archaeology and history suggested that the rise and prosperity of Bronze Age culture in East Asia had made essential contribution to the formation of early state and civilization in this region. However, the impacts in perspective of genetics remain ambiguous. Previous genetic researches indicated the Y-chromosome Q1a1a-M120 and N1a2a-F1101 may be the two most important paternal lineages among the Bronze Age people in ancient northwest China. Here, we investigated the 9,000-years history of haplogroup N1a2a-F1101 with revised phylogenetic tree and spatial autocorrelation analysis.Materials and Methods: In this study, 229 sequences of N1a2a-F1101 were analyzed. We developed a highly-revised phylogenetic tree with age estimates for N1a2a-F1101. In addition, we also explored the geographical distribution of sub-lineages of N1a2a-F1101, and spatial autocorrelation analysis was conducted for each sub-branch.Results: The initial differentiation location of N1a2a-F1101 and its most closely related branch, N1a2b-P43, a major lineage of Uralic-speaking populations in northern Eurasia, is likely the west part of northeast China. After ~4 thousand years of bottleneck effect period, haplgroup N1a2a-F1101 experienced continuous expansion during the Chalcolithic age (~ 4.5 kya to 4 kya) and Bronze age (~ 4 kya to 2.5 kya) in northern China. Ancient DNA evidence supported that this haplogroup is the lineage of ruling family of Zhou Dynasty (~ 3 kya-2.2 kya) of ancient China.Discussion: In general, we proposed that the Bronze Age people in the border area between the eastern Eurasian steppe and northern China not only played a key role in promoting the early state and civilization of China, but also left significant traces in the gene pool of Chinese people.
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- Hui-Xin Yu
- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Human Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Human Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Human Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- School of Literature and Media, Xingyi Normal University for Nationalities, Xingyi, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of International Tourism and culture, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China
- *Correspondence: Kai-Jun Liu, ; Lan-Hai Wei,
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Human Sciences, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
- B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Kai-Jun Liu, ; Lan-Hai Wei,
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Wang CZ, Wei LH, Zhang JS, Yu XE, Bai RF, Li H, Shi MS, Ma SH. Forensic characteristics and genetic substructure analysis of the Handan Han population, Northern China. Ann Hum Biol 2023; 50:123-125. [PMID: 36803234 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2023.2181985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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We analysed the forensic characteristics and substructure of the Handan Han population based on 36 Y-STR (short tandem repeat) and Y-SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) markers. The two most dominant haplogroups in Handan Han, O2a2b1a1a1-F8 (17.95%) and O2a2b1a2a1a (21.51%), and their abundant downstream branches, reflected the strong expansion of the precursor of the Hans in Handan. The present results enrich the forensic database and explore the genetic relationships between Handan Han and other neighbouring and/or linguistically close populations, which suggests that the current concise overview of the Han intricate substructure remains oversimplified.
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- Chi-Zao Wang
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
- Laboratory of Medical Molecular Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Criminal Justice College of China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Shanxi Academy of Advanced Research and Innovation, Fudan-Datong Institute of Chinese Origin, Datong, China
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- Criminal Justice College of China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
- Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
- Laboratory of Medical Molecular Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
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Zhou J, Zhang X, Li X, Sui J, Zhang S, Zhong H, Zhang Q, Zhang X, Huang H, Wen Y. Genetic structure and demographic history of Northern Han people in Liaoning Province inferred from genome-wide array data. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1014024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In this study, we used typical and advanced population genetic analysis methods [principal component analysis (PCA), ADMIXTURE, FST, f3-statistics, f4-statistics, qpAdm/qpWave, qpGraph, ALDER (Admixture-induced Linkage Disequilibrium for Evolutionary Relationships) and TreeMix] to explore the genetic structure of 80 Han individuals from four different cities in Liaoning Province and reconstruct their demographic history based on the newly generated genome-wide data. We found that Liaoning Han people have genetic similarities with other northern Han people (Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi) and Liaoning Manchu people. Millet farmers in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) and the West Liao River Basin (WLRB) (57–98%) and hunter-gatherers in the Mongolian Plateau (MP) and the Amur River Basin (ARB) (40–43%) are the main ancestral sources of the Liaoning Han people. Our study further supports the “northern origin hypothesis”; YRB-related ancestry accounts for 83–98% of the genetic makeup of the Liaoning Han population. There are clear genetic influences of northern East Asian populations in the Liaoning Han people, ancient Northeast Asian-related ancestry is another dominant ancestral component, and large-scale population admixture has happened between Tungusic Manchu people and Han people. There are genetic differences among the Liaoning Han people, and we found that these differences are associated with different migration routes of Hans during the “Chuang Guandong” period in historical records.
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Xiong J, Du P, Chen G, Tao Y, Zhou B, Yang Y, Wang H, Yu Y, Chang X, Allen E, Sun C, Zhou J, Zou Y, Xu Y, Meng H, Tan J, Li H, Wen S. Sex-Biased Population Admixture Mediated Subsistence Strategy Transition of Heishuiguo People in Han Dynasty Hexi Corridor. Front Genet 2022; 13:827277. [PMID: 35356424 PMCID: PMC8960071 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.827277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The Hexi Corridor was an important arena for culture exchange and human migration between ancient China and Central and Western Asia. During the Han Dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE), subsistence strategy along the corridor shifted from pastoralism to a mixed pastoralist-agriculturalist economy. Yet the drivers of this transition remain poorly understood. In this study, we analyze the Y-chromosome and mtDNA of 31 Han Dynasty individuals from the Heishuiguo site, located in the center of the Hexi Corridor. A high-resolution analysis of 485 Y-SNPs and mitogenomes was performed, with the Heishuiguo population classified into Early Han and Late Han groups. It is revealed that (1) when dissecting genetic lineages, the Yellow River Basin origin haplogroups (i.e., Oα-M117, Oβ-F46, Oγ-IMS-JST002611, and O2-P164+, M134-) reached relatively high frequencies for the paternal gene pools, while haplogroups of north East Asian origin (e.g., D4 and D5) dominated on the maternal side; (2) in interpopulation comparison using PCA and Fst heatmap, the Heishuiguo population shifted from Southern-Northern Han cline to Northern-Northwestern Han/Hui cline with time, indicating genetic admixture between Yellow River immigrants and natives. By comparison, in maternal mtDNA views, the Heishuiguo population was closely clustered with certain Mongolic-speaking and Northwestern Han populations and exhibited genetic continuity through the Han Dynasty, which suggests that Heishuiguo females originated from local or neighboring regions. Therefore, a sex-biased admixture pattern is observed in the Heishuiguo population. Additionally, genetic contour maps also reveal the same male-dominated migration from the East to Hexi Corridor during the Han Dynasty. This is also consistent with historical records, especially excavated bamboo slips. Combining historical records, archeological findings, stable isotope analysis, and paleoenvironmental studies, our uniparental genetic investigation on the Heishuiguo population reveals how male-dominated migration accompanied with lifestyle adjustments brought by these eastern groups may be the main factor affecting the subsistence strategy transition along the Han Dynasty Hexi Corridor.
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- Jianxue Xiong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States
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- Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Center for the Belt and Road Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations (BRAAC), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Jingze Tan, ; Hui Li, ; Shaoqing Wen,
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Jingze Tan, ; Hui Li, ; Shaoqing Wen,
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Center for the Belt and Road Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations (BRAAC), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- *Correspondence: Jingze Tan, ; Hui Li, ; Shaoqing Wen,
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Ma B, Chen J, Yang X, Bai J, Ouyang S, Mo X, Chen W, Wang CC, Hai X. The Genetic Structure and East-West Population Admixture in Northwest China Inferred From Genome-Wide Array Genotyping. Front Genet 2022; 12:795570. [PMID: 34992635 PMCID: PMC8724515 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.795570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Northwest China is a contacting region for East and West Eurasia and an important center for investigating the migration and admixture history of human populations. However, the comprehensive genetic structure and admixture history of the Altaic speaking populations and Hui group in Northwest China were still not fully characterized due to insufficient sampling and the lack of genome-wide data. Thus, We genotyped genome-wide SNPs for 140 individuals from five Chinese Mongolic, Turkic speaking groups including Dongxiang, Bonan, Yugur, and Salar, as well as the Hui group. Analysis based on allele-sharing and haplotype-sharing were used to elucidate the population history of Northwest Chinese populations, including PCA, ADMIXTURE, pairwise Fst genetic distance, f-statistics, qpWave/qpAdm and ALDER, fineSTRUCTURE and GLOBETROTTER. We observed Dongxiang, Bonan, Yugur, Salar, and Hui people were admixed populations deriving ancestry from both East and West Eurasians, with the proportions of West Eurasian related contributions ranging from 9 to 15%. The genetic admixture was probably driven by male-biased migration- showing a higher frequency of West Eurasian related Y chromosomal lineages than that of mtDNA detected in Northwest China. ALDER-based admixture and haplotype-based GLOBETROTTER showed this observed West Eurasian admixture signal was introduced into East Eurasia approximately 700 ∼1,000 years ago. Generally, our findings provided supporting evidence that the flourish transcontinental communication between East and West Eurasia played a vital role in the genetic formation of northwest Chinese populations.
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- Bin Ma
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.,Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.,State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Ecology and Population Health in Northwest Minority Areas, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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Yu X, Li H. Origin of ethnic groups, linguistic families, and civilizations in China viewed from the Y chromosome. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 296:783-797. [PMID: 34037863 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-021-01794-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the south, harbors a variety of people, cultures, and languages. To reconstruct the natural history of East Asians is a mission of multiple disciplines, including genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology. Geneticists confirm the recent African origin of modern East Asians. Anatomically modern humans arose in Africa and immigrated into East Asia via a southern route approximately 50,000 years ago. Following the end of the Last Glacial Maximum approximately 12,000 years ago, rice and millet were domesticated in the south and north of East Asia, respectively, which allowed human populations to expand and linguistic families and ethnic groups to develop. These Neolithic populations produced a strong relation between the present genetic structures and linguistic families. The expansion of the Hongshan people from northeastern China relocated most of the ethnic populations on a large scale approximately 5300 years ago. Most of the ethnic groups migrated to remote regions, producing genetic structure differences between the edge and center of East Asia. In central China, pronounced population admixture occurred and accelerated over time, which subsequently formed the Han Chinese population and eventually the Chinese civilization. Population migration between the north and the south throughout history has left a smooth gradient in north-south changes in genetic structure. Observation of the process of shaping the genetic structure of East Asians may help in understanding the global natural history of modern humans.
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- Xueer Yu
- MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.,Shanxi Academy of Advanced Research and Innovation, Fudan-Datong Institute of Chinese Origin, Datong, 037006, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China. .,Shanxi Academy of Advanced Research and Innovation, Fudan-Datong Institute of Chinese Origin, Datong, 037006, China.
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Cui Y, Zhang F, Ma P, Fan L, Ning C, Zhang Q, Zhang W, Wang L, Robbeets M. Bioarchaeological perspective on the expansion of Transeurasian languages in Neolithic Amur River basin. EVOLUTIONARY HUMAN SCIENCES 2020; 2:e15. [PMID: 37588356 PMCID: PMC10427477 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Owing to the development of sequencing technology, paleogenomics has become an important source of information on human migration and admixture, complementing findings from archaeology and linguistics. In this study, we retrieved the whole genome and Y chromosome lineage from late Neolithic Honghe individuals in the Middle Amur region in order to provide a bioarchaeological perspective on the origin and expansion of Transeurasian languages in the Amur River basin. Our genetic analysis reveals that the population of the Amur River basin has a stable and continuous genetic structure from the Mesolithic Age up to date. Integrating linguistic and archaeological evidence, we support the hypothesis that the expansion of the Transeurasian language system in the Amur River basin is related to the agricultural development and expansion of the southern Hongshan culture. The spread of agricultural technology resulted in the addition of millet cultivation to the original subsistence mode of fishing and hunting. It played a vital role in the expansion of the population of the region, which in its turn has contributed to the spread of language.
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- Yinqiu Cui
- Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
- Eurasia3angle, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, JenaD-07745, Germany
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- School of Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Harbin150008, P. R. China
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- Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun130012, China
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- Eurasia3angle, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, JenaD-07745, Germany
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Lu Q, Cheng HZ, Li L, Yao HB, Ru K, Wen SQ, Shi MS, Zeng ZS, Wei LH. Paternal heritage of the Han Chinese in Henan province (Central China): high diversity and evidence of in situ Neolithic expansions. Ann Hum Biol 2020; 47:294-299. [PMID: 32281408 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1748226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
Abstract
Background: Due to their long history, complex admixture processes and large population sizes, more research is required to explore the fine genetic structure of Han populations from different geographic locations of China.Aim: To characterise the paternal genetic structure of the Han Chinese in Henan province, which was once the central living region of the ancient Huaxia population, the precursors of the Han Chinese.Subjects and methods: We sequenced Y chromosomes of 60 males from Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and reconstructed a phylogenetic tree for these samples with age estimation.Results: We observed high diversity of paternal lineages in our collection. We found that the in situ Neolithic expansion of the "Major lineages" contributed to a large portion of the paternal gene pool of the Han population in Henan Province. We also detected a large number of "Minor lineages" that diverged in the Palaeolithic Age.Conclusion: We suggest that the high genetic diversity in the paternal gene pool of modern Han populations is mainly attributed to the reservation of a larger number of lineages that diverged in the Palaeolithic Age, while the recent expansion of limited lineages contributed to the majority of the gene pool of modern Han populations. We propose that such a structure is a basal characteristic for the genetic structure of modern Han populations.
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- Qi Lu
- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Zhengzhou Central Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Evidence Science of Gansu Province, Gansu University of Political Science and Law, Lanzhou, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of the Investigation, School of Criminal Justice, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.,B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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